John Prine penned his haunting lyric in the song ‘Sam Stone’, a lament about the Vietnam War. Sam came home from Vietnam haunted by what he saw there. He could not exorcise his demons and eventually died of an overdose. I think of Prine’s work three times a day when I plug antibiotics into the picc line in my arm to fight off a recurring staph infection.

You think gods way of telling you to quit whining was for him to use a young girl having a seizure? You are one weird dude. Why do people have to complicate everything?!?! That was real life telling you to quit whining. But I guess I am a weird dude also. Sometimes I need a ride through the cemetery or past the prison to stop my whining. I just hope god didnt bury and incarcerate all those people for me to stay thankful. I wish you well in your recovery. As for that metal taste when I got out of ICU my personal experience was salty food intensified that metal taste and all I could tolerate was sweet stuff. My staph resolved itself and is quite common to get in a hospital. It just sucks that it wasnt that easy for you. There is definitely a lesson in every experience. But not every cloud has a silver lining.

May God bless you and the strong desire to help others. There is a silver lining in the story you share. It will take time but 50% of those with staph do not survive, mostly women.
Walter you are in my prayers.

your sick. as someone that lost family in that disaster i dont see any silver. but again as one who is affected by second hand information your opinion might feel 99.9% correct to you. the world does not like us? thats what the u.s. government wants you to think. american money accepted everywhere. and for the narcotic producing countries we use more of their product than any other country in the world. read all these blogs including your own. why shouldnt the rest of the world hate us? they can just read yours and tolleys blogs and see there are americans that hate america. you two and bin laden hate this country more than anyone i know. but i forgot you two are superior to the rest of the world because you are white and live in america. so you are privilaged. add christian to the mix and you have a license to kill. all the good work we do? funny to me we like to do all the good work around oil wells overseas. i saw all the good work you man bush did when katrina hit. and during the aftermath. this country is digusting. i have been taught something in my youth that still applies in everyday life. C.R.E.A.M (cash runs EVERYTHING around me). bottom line. so you keep giving preacher man you money, and pledging allegeince to your flag, because this country needs people like you. patriots like you walking around like you thinking your in a free country truly it make a free country for those who have you brainwashed. free for bush, free for obama, and free for the next one.